@booklet {5518, title = {Gifts}, year = {2004}, note = {

The three volumes are rpt. in her\ Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts Voices Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2020), with\ Gifts\ (1-148),\ Voices\ (149-336), and\ Powers\ (337-614), a Note on the Texts (666), and a list of corrected typographical errors (667). The volume also includes a Chronology (651-65) Le Guin\’s \“The Young Adult in YA: Talk delivered to the American Library Association (2004)\” (617-26, with notes on 668-70) [Originally published in her\ Cheek by Jowl\ (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 110-23]; and \“Some Assumptions about Fantasy: Talk delivered at Book Expo America June 4, 2004\” (627-29, with notes on 670) [Originally published in her\ Cheek by Jowl\ (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 4-7], and interviews of Le Guin with Paola Castagno 2006 (630-33, with notes on 670-71) [Originally publish in Spanish on Castagno\’s website\ Doce Moradas\ and in English on Le Guin\’s website, http:/www.ursulakleguin.com/doce-moradas], Brian Attebery February 17, 2007 (634-38, with notes on 671-72) [Originally published in\ Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts\ 17.4 (2007): 371-75], and Alexander Chee February 5, 2008 (639-47), with notes on 672) [Originally published in\ Guernica, heets://www.guernicamag.com.breaking_into_the_spell_I/.\ 

}, month = {2004}, publisher = {Harcourt}, address = {Orlando, FL}, abstract = {

First volume of a young adult trilogy. The setting is a country in which individual families have gifts that were mostly destructive and the need to learn to control them. In the second volume, Voices. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006, the people are enslaved by a people who outlaw reading. In the third volume, Powers. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007, a young boy escapes slavery and explores his world and his gift of foreseeing the future.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018)} }